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OPM in the News

OPM in the News

December 11th, 2014

As Connecticut-based Oxford Performance Materials Inc. (OPM) has developed its 3D printing processes and materials, the company has simultaneously managed to create parts that are both biocompatible and aerospace compliant. Straddling the industries of medicine and aerospace, OPM is capable of printing jet engine parts that may be safe inside of one’s body and implants strong enough to fly in a fighter jet.

November 19th, 2014

Oxford Performance Materials Inc. has revealed it has received a three-year $150,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to deliver new approaches in the treatment of infections related to implanted devices from advanced applications of 3D printed poly-ether-ketone-ketone.

August 18th, 2014

August 13th, 2014

When NASA's Juno satellite blasted off for Jupiter, the 3D printed parts in its final assembly represented just one small step toward manufacturer Lockheed Martin's goal to eventually build an entire spacecraft using additive manufacturing technology. The launch also signified one giant leap toward the use of 3D printing in the aerospace firm's manufacturing processes here on earth.

August 5th, 2014

South Windsor's Oxford Performance Materials Inc. has named two division presidents. Severine Zygmont, whose most recent title was chief operating officer, has been named president of OPM's biomedical division, the company said. Meanwhile, OPM hired Paul Martin as president of its aerospace and industrial division.